Don't have time to go for eloquence or completeness, but did want to call attention to a couple of political issues (not Occupy Wall Street--I'm totally on board and supportive with it, even if I have a couple of quibbles here and there, but five hundred jillion other people got that covered, so just a quick "you go guys!" to them ( Read more... )

As long as livejournal is still working for me ( Read more... )

Sleep, and dreams, especially those which are interesting and/or offer comfort, solace, and/or fun ( Read more... )

I know some of you are fans of blogger Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism ( Read more... )

Since several of you are also Walter Jon Williams fans, and several of you are also fascinated by economics, and several of you are into gaming of one sort or another, and more than half of you are probably interested in near-future science fiction that puts all of these together with the collapse of civilization in Indonesia following a currency ( Read more... )

The following article, "The Next President's First Task (A Manifesto)", is well worth reading.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/05/rfk_manifesto200805

Key quotes:

We know that nations that “decarbonize” their economies reap ( Read more... )

Because I absolutely *must* do this before the end of January, or it will have to get skipped ( Read more... )